Fragments of Isabella
The deeply moving true account of a young Jewish woman’s imprisonment by the Nazis at the Auschwitz death camp. On May 29, 1944, the day after Isabella Katz’s twenty-third birthday, she, her family, and all the Jews in the ghetto in Kisvárda, Hungary, were rounded up by Nazi storm troopers,...
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The deeply moving true account of a young Jewish woman’s imprisonment by the Nazis at the Auschwitz death camp.
On May 29, 1944, the day after Isabella Katz’s twenty-third birthday, she, her family, and all the Jews in the ghetto in Kisvárda, Hungary, were rounded up by Nazi storm troopers, packed into cattle cars, and deported to Auschwitz. There, Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death, scrutinized the family and decided who would live—for a time—and who would die. Isabella and three of her sisters waged a daily battle to survive, giving one another strength, courage, and love, promising themselves that they would cheat the crematoriums and end each day alive.
Thirty years after she escaped from the Nazis, Isabella wrote this powerful and luminous memoir. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as “a celebration of the strength of the human spirit as it passes through fire,” Fragments of Isabella has become a classic of holocaust literature and human survival.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781504036665 (150403662)
ASIN: B01EW5P1PC
Publish date: 2016-06-14
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages no: 121
Edition language: English
Thank you, NetGalley, for the opportunity to read and to review this work. It is May 1944, isabella's birthday, when she, her mother, brother, and four sisters, along with the remaining Jews in a ghetto in Hungary, are removed and sent to Auschwitz. Immediately following their arrival at the camp,...
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A Memoir of Auschwitz In her memoir Ms. Leitner uses her writing skills to share with us her wartime experiences when she and her family were taken from their Hungarian home and deported to Auschwitz. The book was first published in 1978 and in 2016 “Open Road Media” provides us with updated digit...